Test Delivery Lead

**Overview**

We are looking for experienced Test Lead who are driven and passionate about project delivery, who can lead a team of testers and be responsible for end-to-end testing, test strategy/plan through to test execution, including sign-off as required with proven experience working with management to achieve strategic goals. A strong background in super, insurance and financial systems will be highly advantageous.

**Key Accountabilities and Main Responsibilities**
- Manage the Full E2E testing lifecycle of assigned projects in a multi-vendor and a captive / distributed delivery environment.
- Governance of Testing across full spectrum of the SDLC including Functional testing of API (Unit, ST, SIT, E2E, Regression) and automation testing (API/Mobile apps, Web Applications etc)
- Design/Architect test automation framework and develop the new test automation libraries
- Support new and existing testing processes, ensures team is using industry-accepted best practices for test creation coding methods
- Experienced in automation forecasting for new and maintenance efforts
- Define the test automation strategy and framework to be used across IT, and continue to enhance and modify based on industry best practices
- Design and implement advanced testing practices and tools. Evaluate, recommend, and implement enterprise wide standards and process guidelines that support automated process improvement across the SDLC.
- Responsible for administration of test tools and integrations required to support the test automation strategic roadmap and will implement enterprise-wide standards and process guidelines to ensure effective use of the tools
- Ensure that all Testing activities for an assigned project are successfully delivered according to an agreed project plan / schedule, and meets identified success criteria and are therefore fit for purpose.
- Build relationships and liaise closely with Project Managers, Developers, Business Systems Analysts, Support staff and the Business community to ensure that testing activities are fully communicated / reported and stakeholders are regularly informed.
- Review project business requirements, technical specifications, end to end Business Processes and solution design documents, highlighting any gaps or potential improvements
- Must be able to formulate effective, practical and robust Test Strategies and Test Plans by coordinating with all relevant stakeholders considering a highly complex financial services environment.
- Responsible for the day to day leadership of the project test team and the delivery / execution of the test planning and execution effort.
- Manage the escalation of issues/risks as discovered through the Testing effort and manage the implementation of issue resolutions relevant to the Testing effort.
- Ensure the testing team members assigned are fully supported and provided with testing work aligned to the delivery of the testing for the assigned project.
- Demonstrated ability to build ongoing positive relationships with key customers, suppliers and stakeholders to ensure workable business and technical solutions and the delivery of excellent customer service.
- Demonstrate ability on building Test team capability by providing appropriate metrics and status reporting across test execution and defect remediation techniques
- Manage and mitigate Risks assigned to testing and participate and enable Test Readiness meetings prior to execution and along the project cycle

**Experience & Personal Attributes**
- Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Business or a related discipline
- At least 10 years in a test role with at least 8+ years in leading and driving technical team in regards to API and automation testing
- Experience in test management in a captive model will be highly advantageous
- Strong experience with Test Plans & Strategies, Test Cases & Test Reporting
- Testing experience across various test phases including Functional testing, Systems and Systems Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing.
- Traceability Matrices, Test Cases, Metrics creation, Risk and Priority based testing analysis and test evidence collection
- Good analytical skills and excellent planning / scheduling skills
- Strong experience in defining and documenting the test automation approach and test automation plan across test phases.
- Strong experience in building automation framework (from scratch) in projects.
- Exceptional C#/Specflow experience with capability of creating scenarios from scratch.
- Experience in API(SOAP/Rest) testing using tools such as Postman, SOAPUI, Ready API etc
- Strong Experience in automation of Webservices using Rest assured/Postman/Soap UI/MSTest framework.
- Strong experience in Selenium, Test Complete is a must
- Proven experience in Java/C#/VB/Groovy
- Experience in testing Microservices using VSTS with C# and Specflow.
- Should have implemented BDD using Specflow library/Cucumbers across complex pro